1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urgin 1312 – 2nd council of Vienna 1764 – Austrian archduke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king 1776 – Washington receives honorary degree from Harvard College 1856 – Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1922 – Stalin appointed General...
Washington Irving"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."Washington Irving portrait, painted by Daniel Huntington
When the spring star Arcturus is first spotted rising in the east-northeast at nightfall it sparks our awareness of the changing sky. Spring constellations are rising as winter’s hallmark patterns are setting. Arcturus (Greek arctos ‘bear’ + ouros ‘guardian’ = guardian of the bear), in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman, and Ursa Major, the Great...
In any year, you can follow this imaginary arc to Arcturus and Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo the Maiden.
But this year, 2017, is extra special because the dazzling planet Jupiter beams close to Spica all year long.
Community Board 1 (CB1) has endorsed a bill now under consideration in the State Senate that would require Governor to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). Currently, only one of that agency’s seven board seats is held by a resident of the community, Martha Gallo. At the...
Ninfa Segarra: "The BPCA is our government. So we're asking for representation in our government. Because we're not really governed by the City Council or the Mayor. We're governed by BPCA in our day-to-day lives."
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. 1651 – Great earthquake at Cuzco, Peru 1850 – US population hits 23,191,876 1861 – Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans 1870 – First black...
The Eiffel Tower.
Named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built it, it is1,063 ft tall, and the tallest structure in Paris. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930
What an eye-opener this article is!! I have asked the BPCA repeatedly for better information about the bonds that underpin our land, but it takes a bond rating company to elucidate how our bonds really work. So, the reversion of our homes to NY State and to the Bondholders is ultimately why our bonds are...
The backers of the proposed East River Skyway are expanding their plan to include a phase that would connect Battery Park with Governors Island, and Red Hook, Brooklyn. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Levy, president of the CityRealty website, who first proposed in mid-2016 to build a cablecar network with large gondolas that...
An artist's rendering of the first phase of the East River Skyway proposal, which could whisk commuters from Williamsburg to the Lower East Side in as little as five minutes.
